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Humanity has reached a new pinnacle. I will not say I have seen it all but I am getting closer as my aneurism looms nearby. Scientists have finally discovered a drug to fool the body into exercising without the tedious effort of actually moving (article).
I will state that if you read the article, you will discover that perhaps the drug may help people who otherwise could not exercise. However, the article mentions couch potato too many times so we intelligent folk can figure out to whom the drug is being aimed.
How lazy do you have to be? We have remote controls because we can’t be bothered with moving five feet to change a station. We have drive-thru restaurants because there is too much effort to walk a hundred yards. Additionally, the drive-thru restaurants allow us to grab food quickly because the effort to cook is exhausting. There are even robotic (insert expletive here) vacuum cleaners!! Now, exercise in a pill! Soon we won’t have to get out of bed. Slowly, the human race is… well…making the human race…ah…obsolete. Maybe the creators of the Matrix are on to something.
My doctor, rather profoundly, explained the concept of exercise inherent in our DNA. She said that exercise is programmed into our genetics from the days when humans had to hunt for food. She told me there is no quick fix and if one is too lazy to exercise and eat properly, be fat and quit whining.
We are a lazy society…but why…impatience. Let us blame the shipping companies. Some time ago, we would order a product and we would have to wait for it to arrive. However, we can now order a product from half way around the world and have it delivered overnight. The overnight phenomena meant that workers could no longer say to the boss “That proposal will have to wait because the documents won’t be here until next week.”. Oh no, thanks to the shipping companies, we can’t get a break. Broaden that thought and think of the poor people working for the shipping companies…yikes.
Our impatience has had a ripple effect across our lives. Most are tied to their jobs through PDA’s, they are connected 24 x 7. We feel guilty taking time off from work and many are still connected while on vacation. In fact, comparing average vacation time in the U.S. to the rest of the world shows Americans work too much. Even our national holidays have suffered attrition through the years. Without down time it is no wonder we are lazy in our own lives.
We are in too much of a hurry and need to slow down. A magic pill will not help. I can guarantee that the exercise pill will have some type of freaky side effect. I have a feeling the side effect will have something to do with cardiac explosion. Pills are not the answer to all ailments and frankly, all the medicating does is bring profits to pharmaceuticals and disastrous side effects to the medicated.
Now where is the damn remote….
I will state that if you read the article, you will discover that perhaps the drug may help people who otherwise could not exercise. However, the article mentions couch potato too many times so we intelligent folk can figure out to whom the drug is being aimed.
How lazy do you have to be? We have remote controls because we can’t be bothered with moving five feet to change a station. We have drive-thru restaurants because there is too much effort to walk a hundred yards. Additionally, the drive-thru restaurants allow us to grab food quickly because the effort to cook is exhausting. There are even robotic (insert expletive here) vacuum cleaners!! Now, exercise in a pill! Soon we won’t have to get out of bed. Slowly, the human race is… well…making the human race…ah…obsolete. Maybe the creators of the Matrix are on to something.
My doctor, rather profoundly, explained the concept of exercise inherent in our DNA. She said that exercise is programmed into our genetics from the days when humans had to hunt for food. She told me there is no quick fix and if one is too lazy to exercise and eat properly, be fat and quit whining.
We are a lazy society…but why…impatience. Let us blame the shipping companies. Some time ago, we would order a product and we would have to wait for it to arrive. However, we can now order a product from half way around the world and have it delivered overnight. The overnight phenomena meant that workers could no longer say to the boss “That proposal will have to wait because the documents won’t be here until next week.”. Oh no, thanks to the shipping companies, we can’t get a break. Broaden that thought and think of the poor people working for the shipping companies…yikes.
Our impatience has had a ripple effect across our lives. Most are tied to their jobs through PDA’s, they are connected 24 x 7. We feel guilty taking time off from work and many are still connected while on vacation. In fact, comparing average vacation time in the U.S. to the rest of the world shows Americans work too much. Even our national holidays have suffered attrition through the years. Without down time it is no wonder we are lazy in our own lives.
We are in too much of a hurry and need to slow down. A magic pill will not help. I can guarantee that the exercise pill will have some type of freaky side effect. I have a feeling the side effect will have something to do with cardiac explosion. Pills are not the answer to all ailments and frankly, all the medicating does is bring profits to pharmaceuticals and disastrous side effects to the medicated.
Now where is the damn remote….
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